Portable garage light



Maigh 18, 1930. H, c, VOOTH 1,750,870

PORTABLE GARAGE LIGHT Filed April 29, 1929 Patented Mar. 18 1930 warren are mean res? sw r I HARRY c. voo'rn, or YEAST HAVEN, connno'riou'n nssrsnon.ro THE RATTAn ivrr'e.

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A CORPORATION PORTABLE GARAGE LIGI-I'Ji 3 Application filed April 29,

This invention relates to improvement in portable garage lights. These consist of a handle formed from wood or other electricinsulating material adapted to support an electric-light bulb connected with wires extending through the handle and with a cage mounted on the handle and surrounding the light-bulb so as to protect the same. In the more general construction of lamps of this character, dilficulty is experienced in replacing the bulb when it is broken. The object of this invention is to provide simple and convenient means for connecting the cage to the handle, and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side View of a portable garage light constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is an end view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1, enlarged;

Fig. 1 is a side view partly in section of the handle illustrating the manner of connecting the guard thereto;

Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the handle detached; and

Fig. 6 is a perspective View of the handlering detached.

In carrying out my invention I employ a handle 10 formed from wood .or other insulating material with an annular rib 11 at its outer end, this rib being formed with notches 12, herein represented as three in number. The lamp-guard consists of a ring 13 formed on its inner edge with integral downwardlyextending arms 14 terminating in outwardly-extended fingers 15. These finio'gers correspond in number and location to the location of the notches 12 which they are adapted to enter, so that the ring will come to a bearing upon the outer edge of the rib 11. V

A clamping-strap 16 is then placed around the handle, below the rib 11, and is of a width to engage at one edge withthe rib and at the other edge with the fingers 15, the ends of the strap being secured together by a screw 17 by which the ring 13 is firmly conas will hereinafter appear.

site sides with bayonet-slots 24 to'engage 1929. Serial Ne. 358,790.

: standing band 18 struckinward on opposite sidesto form projections 19 for the purpose- The cage proper is formed from wire's'20 5 united to a head .21 and providedwith a hook 28', the said wires being connected at their opposite ends with the flange 22 of a coupling-collar 23 which is formed on oppowith the projections 19, whereby the cage is coupled with the handle. The bayonet-slots and projections, being on opposite sides, permit the cage to be readily engaged and disengaged with the handle when occasion re "55 r quires, although the friction between the parts will be such as to firmly hold them cone nected together. However, in garage work these lamps are subjected to rough usage, and to prevent any possible disengagement of the cage from the handle, I form a per- I foration 25 in the band 18 and registeringperforations 26 in the collar 23 through which a cotter-pin 27 may be entered so as to lock the band and collar against rotation'and yet to permit-the cage to be detached from the handle when necessary to replace the bulb.

In this construction the ring 13 is so firmly fixed to the handle that it is not liable. tobe disengaged therefrom, the device as a whole being adapted to withstandthe rough usage often imposed upon lamps in garage work.

Iclaim:

1. A portable garage light comprising a n handleformed at its outer end with. an annue5 3 lar rib having notches, a ring adapted to'rest on said rib and formed with arms extending through said notches, said arms terminating in outwardly-extending fingers, a strap surrounding said arms and bearing upon said rib V V and fingers, means for connecting the ends of the said strap, said ring formed with an annular band provided with inward projections, and a cage provided with a collar adapted to be interlocked with the first-men- J5 tioned flange. I v

'2. -A portable garage light comprising a handle formed at its 'outer end with an annular rib having notches, a ring adapted torest on said. rib and formed with arms extending I ends ofthe'said strap, saidring formed with v 'fnet-slotsto engage the same.

an annular band, and a cage provi'ded itha I I collar, said band and collar being provided onewith projections and the other with bayo- 3L A portahle; garage light Coin risinga v handle'formed at its outer end with aniannu I V v Iarribhavingnotches, aring adapted to rest on said rib and formed with arms eiztending 1 through said notches, said arms terminating I 5 in outwardly extending fingers; a strapis'ur ,roundingsaid arms and bea ringnpon said rib r p and fingersyineans for connect ngvthe ends 7 of thesaid strap said ring'formed ithan an- 1 nnlar band, and a cageproifided With aicollar,

" said bandand collar being provided one with V projections and the other withbayonetslots toengagethesan e,saidband'andcollar also v 'ihaving aligned perforations and a cotter-pin V entered therein. 1 i

te'stiniony whereofg I 'haYei signd a specification.

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